Frankenstein’s Army director Richard Raaphorst accused Capcom of plagiarizing his monster designs in
Resident Evil Village, the publisher has been sued by an artist for allegedly stealing her photos for use in
Resident Evil and
Devil May Cry games.
As spotted by Polygon, designer Judy A. Juracek filed a complaint in a Connecticut court on Friday. She presented hundreds of pages of documentation showing at least 80 photographs that she captured that were used in over 200 instances without her permission in Capcom games. One example includes a distinct shattered glass photo that Juracek took in Italy, later used in
Resident Evil 4‘s logo.
Capcom’s latest grisly blockbuster stumbles and sprawls but is never boring.
By Dan Whitehead · @DanWritehead · May 28, 2021, 3:52 PM CDT A scene from House Beneviento in RESIDENT EVIL VILLAGE.
Mutation has always been at the heart of
Resident Evil, and not just in the misshapen foes you encounter, their DNA twisted into monstrous forms by bio-weapon viruses. From the very first entry in 1996, which revealed a high-tech research lab gone awry lurking beneath the cobwebbed gothic mansion that opened the game, sudden shifts in location and tone are the bloody bread and butter of the franchise.
Even so, 2017’s
Resident Evil 7 still caught most fans off-guard. Ditching the third-person action that had defined dozens of earlier sequels and spin-offs in favor of a more immersive first-person viewpoint, the game also dropped players into a scenario that was in stark contrast to the super-cops versus mad scientists yarn fans had been conditioned to expect. Y
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